Software Engineer at Euromonitor International

Description
Role Overview
Reporting to the Technical lead, we are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer with a strong background in building scalable, predictable, high-quality and high-performing web applications on the Microsoft technology stack.You will be responsible for building and maintaining internal and external facing applications. You will work with a team of experienced developers and business resources to build high-performing enterprise systems that assist clients in making the best strategic decisions for their business. This includes the maintenance and promotion of department coding standards and naming convention.Contributing to the creation of project delivery timelines will be a key responsibility by providing technical insight and participating in estimation sizing discussions as required.

Key to this role is ensuring the correct Degree or National Diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related qualification.

Key responsibilities

• Software Design
• Software Engineering
• Product testing
• Maintenance/support
• General
• Based on discussions with your SCRUM Team design applications according to end user needs.
• Track projects, tasks and bugs using the company specified work tracking system.
• Understand requirements from a business perspective and contribute to designing clear, easy-to-use applications from a user perspective.
• Involved in the creation of completely new applications or, build upon the functionality of existing ones.
• Work closely with others on the teams/team members to come up with the best possible solutions for the applications.
• Involved in the development of Euromonitor’s technology solutions to improve functionality, user-friendliness and presentation of our products.
• Involved in independent research contributing to technical discussions where required.
• Ensure compliance of final product with end-user specifications through regular reviews with designated end-user groups where applicable.
• This could include testing functionality of your own and colleagues’ code for performance and effecting changes to code as required.
• Regular code reviews with colleagues to identify bugs and performance problems ensuring code and product quality
• Monitor, analyse and act on post-deployment bugs.
• Review of user feedback and proposing/implementing action plans for development.
• Provide any required support to end-users of the applications.
• Contribute to the training of team members on agile development practices, use of appropriate design patterns and SOLID/design principles in their day-to-day work.
• Contribute to the technical ownership of projects/tasks ensuring their successful completion to project deadlines.
• Responsible for the technical quality of junior team members within the team.
• Ensure the writing of concise documentation for applications and websites.
• Show initiative to use new technologies and methodologies that will benefit projects and responding to the introduction of software advances and upgrades.
• Participating in the recruitment of new staff.
• Ensure the SCRUM Team has the highest level of code quality and test coverage.
• Engage in technical discussion contributing to design and development.
• Liaise with Business Analysts, Product Managers and/or internal/external customers to ensure that requirements are understood.
• Contribute to quality practices (e.g. TDD, BDD, Unit Testing) as part of the software engineer best practice.
• Participate in peer code reviews.

Required Technical skills/experience:
Other Skills:

• 3+ years hands on development experience using Microsoft .NET technologies to build Micro Service Architecture, Event Driven Architecture,Web and/or Console Applications as well as Windows and Web Services.

Experience\Understanding in the below frameworks:

• Asp.Net Core 2.0 MVC
• Asp.Net Core 2.0 Web Api
• Angular 6
• MVC .Net Framework 4.6.*
• WebApi Net Framework 4.6.*

Experience\Understanding of DevOps practices including:

• Continuous integration
• QE Automation
• Release Automation
• Server Configuration
• Cross Function Collaboration

Experience\Understanding to the below testing toolset:

• Protractor
• Jasmine
• XUnit
• MOQ

Experience\Understanding to Cloud technologies including:

• Rackspace
• Azure

• OOP programming (theoretical and practical experience of OO design principles and patterns)
• Experience\Understanding with Agile methodologies, BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) Test Driven Development (TDD) and especially Domain Driven Design (DDD).
• Solid knowledge with Visual Studio programming environments and Team Foundation server (TFS).
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong communication with both technical and business teams.
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills.
• Self-motivation and drive to take on personal responsibility.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Critical reasoning and decision making skills.